Being invited to write an editorial about a book 1 I myself authored, is a rather strange experience. I wondered how best to approach the task, and decided, in the 500 or so allotted words, to address what is perhaps the most intriguing question for any author now as we enter the second decade of the age of the internet, namely: ‘Are medical books still required?’.
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Simon Shorvon (2011) studied this question.